The Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the World
Need a New Communist International!

We representatives of the
International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People
at the International Conference in Toronto, Canada from October 10-12,
2008 herby declare the following:

1. Our International Council is an organized expression of friendship
and solidarity with “Soviet people”, i.e. the people struggling to
restore the multinational Soviet Union as a Socialist State. This
Council, along with our organ, Northstar Compass, is carrying on the
traditions of the “Hands Off Russia Committee”(s) which were
internationally established in 1918 to help protect the young Soviet
Republic from foreign intervention.

2. We function as an united fr9nt organization to help unity,
consolidate and coordinate the anti-imperialist forces of the world
with the ongoing world movement to restore the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics. Our aim is international cooperation in
building socialism and solidarity with all anti-imperialist forces
struggling against imperialism, headed by U.S. imperialism, the main
enemy of all mankind.

3. The current situation includes the continued U.S. led military
occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. It includes the rapidly unfolding
economic collapse of Wall Street ands the U.S. Empire. And it includes
the political brinkmanship of the Bush-Cheney-McCain and Obama forces
in support of the U.S. puppet dictator Saakashvili in Georgia, and his
unprovoked attack on South Ossetia and in opposition to the defensive
actions undertaken by the Russian bourgeois state in response. Bush,
McCain, Obama et al. are promoting “fast track” inclusion of Georgia as
a member of NATO, which amounts to a declaration of war against Russia.
It is clear that with regard to war and peace, justice and injustice,
freedom and tyranny, the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election offers no
alternative for the workers and oppressed peoples of the USA and the
world.

4. The history of the international and communist workers movement in
the first half of the twentieth century demonstrated: With Leninism and
the Communist International, despite an unfavorable objective situation
– victories – culminating in the Soviet led defeat of world fascism and
the victorious Chinese national democratic revolution. Without Leninism
and without a Communist International, despite the objectively
favorable post Second World War II situation – defeats – culminating in
the dissolution of the Socialist Camp. Given the above-mentioned facts,
we call upon all proletarian vanguard parties and organizations to get
back to their Leninist roots and principles.

Stalin, the great leader of Socialist construction
in the USSR and of the defeat of world fascism in World War II, pointed
out in the Foundations of Leninism:

“Formerly, the analyses of the conditions for the
proletarian revolution was usually approached from the view of the
economic state of individual countries. Now, this approach is no longer
adequate. Now the matter must be approached from the point of view of
the state of the world economy; for individual countries and individual
national economies have ceased to be self-sufficient units, they have
become links in a single chain called world economy; for the old
“cultured” capitalism has evolved now into imperialism, and imperialism
is a world system of financial enslavement and colonial oppression of
the vast majority of the population of the earth by a handful of
“advanced” countries…

“Formerly, it was the accepted thing to speak of the
proletarian revolution in one or another advanced country as something
separate and self-sufficient, facing a separate national front of
capital as its opposite. Now we must speak of the world proletarian
revolution; for the separate national fronts if capital have become
links in a single chain called the world front of Imperialism, which
must be opposed by a Common Front of the revolutionary movement in all
countries…”

5 .In order for the international working class and the oppressed
peoples to avoid being split up, divided and conquered by the
imperialist powers and U.S. imperialism in particular; to instead of
divide, isolate and smash the enemies of peace, justice, freedom and
socialism, we call on the proletarian vanguard parties and
organizations to UNITE the international working class and the
oppressed people against imperialism – headed by U.S. imperialism – on
the basis of proletarian internationalism.

In the process, we urge all genuine communist and
workers parties not to shy away from but to embrace the challenge of
building a New Communist International, in the tradition of the
outstanding Third International, established under Lenin’s leadership
and on the shoulders of the Russian Revolution and the Soviet working
class.

We the representatives of the International Council
for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People believe, in the words
of “The International” –